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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Joseph Priestley"”.
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Joseph Priestley and the French Connection: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Grammaticography.
This thesis investigates the transformation of Joseph Priestley’s Rudiments of English Grammar between 1761 and 1769. The later editions of Priestley’s grammar have long attracted the interest of historians of linguistic thought for their innovative features, in particular the large appendix of …
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Civil religion in Britain, 1707 - c.1800
… Middleton. It considers such Dissenters as Joseph Priestley and Richard Price, who refashioned civil religion variously along Unitarian and congregational lines. In contrast to the usual scholarly preoccupation with the argument of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that Christianity could never become a …
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The cause of Christ and truth: Arguments for the deity of Christ in the anti-Socinian writings of John Gill, Dan Taylor, and Andrew Fuller
… against Socinian luminaries such as Dr. Joseph Priestley and Dr. Joshua Toulmin. Chapter 5 compares and contrasts the methods and theologies of these three men, showing the great deal of harmony between them as well as the disconcerting contradictions, especially on the subject of the …
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The Love of Learning in the Industrialized Age: Useful Knowledge, Imagination, and the Education of the Nineteenth-Century British Working Classes
… members of the education reform movement such as Joseph Priestley, Henry Brougham, Charles Knight, Harriet Martineau, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Henry Huxley, and William Forster.</p><p>Recognizing “use” and “useful” to be situation–based terms whose meanings, at times, …